“This is happening right now in Washington D.C., the 51st state in the union,” the Ghostbusters star joked.

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In the midst of Murray’s attempts to shield Cyrus’ flub, the “Can’t Be Tamed” singer and her crew set up for a second try, which went more smoothly.

Murray, 66, and Cyrus, 23, have been buds ever since she made a cameo in his 2015 Netflix holiday musical comedy film A Very Murray Christmas. He previously told a Comic-Con audience that he was pleasantly surprised by The Voice judge.

“I was not convinced, but Miley Cyrus is really f—ing good. She can sing,” he said in 2015. “I thought she was a knucklehead crazy girl that you’d want to go on a road trip with, but she can sing.”